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Photovoice as a Methodological Tool to Address HIV and AIDS and Gender Violence amongst Girls on the Street in Rwanda
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Jean-Paul Umurungi --- National University of Rwanda, Claudia Mitchell --- McGill University, Myriam Gervais --- McGill University, Eliane Ubalijoro --- McGill University, Violet Kabarenzi --- Rwanda National Police,This study involved a particular group of children in Rwanda—girls who are living on the street and who miss out on education. Noting their relative absence from “the picture” in relation to accesses to services, the study explored how participatory... -
Finding Voice: The Photovoice Method of Data Collection in HIV and AIDS-Related Research
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Suhana Jacobs --- University of KwaZulu-Natal, Anne Harley --- University of KwaZulu-Natal,This study examined the efficacy of photovoice as a research technique to explore the lives of children and families living in the context of HIV and AIDS. Participants were volunteers at a Day Care and Support Centre (n=18), and members... -
Listening to the Voices of Children in Early Schooling in the South African Context of HIV/AIDS
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Kogilambal Govender --- University of KwaZulu-Natal, Hasina Banu Ebrahim --- University of KwaZulu-Natal,This study explored how children in early schooling interpreted their social reality to construct vulnerable childhoods in an HIV/AIDS context. Ten males and ten females between the ages of eight and nine years from low-income families in KwaZulu-Natal participated in... -
Photovoice as Community Engaged Research: The Interplay between Knowledge Creation and Agency in a South African Study on Safety Promotion
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Shahnaaz Suffla --- Medical Research Council, South Africa Debra Kaminer --- University of Cape Town, South Africa Umesh Bawa --- University of the Western Cape, South AfricaThis article aims to describe Photovoice as a method and process of enacting community engaged research. The multi-dimensional nature of Photovoice is illustrated though a case application, focused on safety promotion in two South African low-income communities. Twenty youth, evenly... -
Coping with hardship through friendship: the importance of peer social capital among children affected by HIV in Kenya
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Morten Skovdal --- Department of Health Promotion and Development, Norway Vincent Onyango Ogutu --- , KenyaChildren living in households affected by HIV face numerous challenges as they take on significant household-sustaining and caregiving roles, often in conditions of poverty. To respond to their hardships, we must identify and understand the support systems they are already... -
Schoolchildren affected by HIV in rural South Africa: schools as environments that enable or limit coping
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: African Journal of AIDS Research • Authors: Fumane Khanare --- School of Education, South AfricaThe importance of psychosocial support for the wellbeing of children made vulnerable by HIV is a frequently discussed topic in the fields of education and HIV-related social science research. For children to juggle both the demands of education and the... -
Codes and Dignity: Thinking about ethics in relation to research on violence
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Fiona C. Ross --- Dept. Social Anthropology, South AfricaBeginning with an anecdote concerning consent forms, the paper offers a critique of assumptions that legalistic protocols offer an adequate guarantee of ethical research. Drawing on research on the South African Truth and Reconciliation Commission, it explores some of the... -
A voice in control?: narratives of accused witches in Chhattisgarh, India
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Helen M. Macdonald --- Dept. Social Anthropology, South AfricaOne characteristic of violence is the unmaking of language and fracturing of the victim's social world. In recent theorising, narrative is posited to play an important role in restoring the victim to his/her status as a social person. Fiona Ross... -
Status of the population of Karamoja Apalis Apalis karamojae in north-eastern Uganda
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Ostrich: Journal of African Ornithology • Authors: Dianah W Nalwanga --- NatureUganda, Uganda Michael Opige --- NatureUganda, Uganda Roger Q Skeen --- NatureUganda, UgandaThe distribution of the Karamoja Apalis Apalis karamojae, an East African endemic, has been sparsely documented in Uganda. In October 2011, a survey of the species was carried out near Iriiri in north-eastern Uganda. The main aim was to find... -
Inventing Women: Female Voice in Kenyan Television Drama
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Charles Kebaya --- Literature, Creative and Performing Arts, KenyaThis article examines contemporary women's voices mediated through Kenyan television drama while focusing on Mother-in-law and Tabasamu. It investigates how female characters’ revelation of self transforms their silence into visibility and action, in the process, showing how they move from... -
Does a paternalistic leader facilitate voice and creative performance? Evidence from Ghana
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Lu Chen --- , China William Ansah Appienti --- , ChinaDrawing upon the conservation of resource theory and leadership contingency model, this study investigated how and when employee voice under three paternalistic leadership dimensions of benevolence, morality, and authoritarianism relates to creativity. The sample included matched survey responses obtained from... -
The influence of developmental feedback on voice: The mediating role of organisation-based self-esteem
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Weilin Su --- , China Xinqi Lin --- , China Manuel London --- , USAWe investigated the extent to which receiving developmental feedback from the work supervisor increased employee confidence to be proactive in expressing promotive voice (e.g., offering advice) and prohibitive voice (e.g., point out problems or criticising), and the employee organisation-based self-esteem... -
Fieldworker reflections on using telephone voice calls to conduct fieldwork amidst the Covid-19 pandemic
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Anthropology Southern Africa • Authors: Motsaathebe Serekoane --- , South Africa Lochner Marais --- , South Africa Michael Pienaar --- , South Africa Carla Sharp --- , South Africa Jan Cloete --- , South Africa Liezel Blomerus --- , South AfricaThe declaration of Covid-19 as a global pandemic on 11 March, 2020, and the disaster management regulations implemented in reply to it had enormous ramifications on ethnographic fieldwork. This situation presented an opportunity to reconsider the methodology used in a... -
Could transformational leadership predict employee voice behaviour? Evidence from a meta-analysis
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Guolong Zhao --- , China Yuxiang Luan --- , ChinaEmployee voice behaviour is a crucial form of social capital for business organisations. This meta-analysis aimed to clarify the relationship between transformational leadership and voice behaviour. A meta-analysis of 44 correlations (n = 14 473) was conducted to evaluate the overall association,... -
Controlling the clock: Working hours in the UK hotel sector
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Research in Hospitality Management • Authors: Annemarie Piso --- , UKThe hotel sector is synonymous with working hours that are long, unpredictable and result in poor outcomes for employees. Arguably, they constitute one of the most significant features of the employment relationship, yet little research exists to explore the factors... -
Organisational compassion and employee voice behaviour: The mediating role of perceived insider status and felt responsibility
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Yungui Guo --- , China Wei Wang --- , ChinaDrawing on social exchange and social cognitive theory, we explored the role of perceived insider status and felt responsibility in the relationship between organisational compassion and employee voice. The sample consisted of 301 employees from eight enterprises in China (female... -
Online incentives and customer voice: The mediating role of community identification
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Miaoling Liu --- , China Bingcheng Yang --- , ChinaWe investigated the mediating role of virtual community identification on the relationship between online incentives and customer voice. We surveyed 369 customers from Apple (n = 198) and Huawei (n = 171) virtual communities. Structural equation modelling results showed that... -
Examining leaders’ emotional intelligence as a distal antecedent of employee engagement: The role of employee voice and trust in direct leadership
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Africa Journal of Management • Authors: Okechukwu Ethelbert Amah --- Pan-Atlantic University,The study investigated leaders’ emotional intelligence (EI) as a distal antecedent of employee engagement, using employee voice and trust in direct leadership as mediating variables. Based on the Affective Event Theory, the study recognized the emotional intelligence of leaders as... -
Moving the Margins: Gender Inequality and Homelessness in Amma Darko’s Faceless
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Eastern African Literary and Cultural Studies • Authors: Puleng Segalo --- University of South Africa, South Africa Theresah Patrine Ennin --- University of South Africa, South AfricaMany African women writers have engaged with issues of social justice, development and the need to pay attention to the persistent inequalities that eat away the fabric of many societies. To this day, they continue to be at the coalface... -
How does social media use affect employee voice behaviour?
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Guolong Zhao --- LNU & CAITEC China Business Development Institute (Beijing), ChinaSocial media has become an increasingly important tool for employees to communicate and share their opinions. Yet, there are still some gaps in the social media use research. We investigated leader–member exchange and voice efficacy mediation of social media use... -
Overqualification perception and employee voice: Mediation by dual path autonomous and controlled motivation
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Journal of Psychology in Africa • Authors: Enhai Yu --- School of Economics and Management, North China Electric Power University, China Xiao Ge --- School of Economics and Management, North China Electric Power University, China He Ding --- School of Economics and Management, North China Electric Power University, ChinaDrawing on person–vocation fit and self-determination theory, we explored the role of the autonomous and controlled motivation in the relationship between overqualification perception and employee voice. The sample consisted of 251 employees from different enterprises in China (female = 52.6%;... -
Children’s voices through teachers’ stories
Item type: Journal Article • Journal: Indo-Pacific Journal of Phenomenology • Authors: Elisabetta Musi --- Catholic University of the Sacred Heart, Italy Margareth Eilifsen --- Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, NorwayWe understand our lives through narratives, and the form of these narratives is appropriate for understanding the actions of others, writes MacIntyre (1981). Meanwhile, narratives and our understanding of them also inform our understanding of our own actions. In this...